Winamp has an input plugin, not sure how you could get it to select the optical input, but once you do that you just need to play the MD player and record in Winamp, you get a nice .wav file out of it ...

A lovable, if obsolete, format.

my roomate has made dozens of minidiscs by going from his computer to the Sony NET-MD enabled portable minidisc player...this transfer has added some form of ATRAC compression I believe to the ...